“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” - Carl Sagan
"You are the moonlight on the mountain, a grain of sand upon the beach, you are the dream that lasts forever, are the best that you can be" makes me feel every emotion AND THEN it gets followed up by that riff.... fucking incredible
Ash Vinny, will go down in history with Radiohead i swear it, and i know he would love that, but he’s honestly gotten me though tough times though his streams, so for me he has also gone down in history someone that brings joy to people though his streams, and often hilarious corruptions.
coming back to this, i always complained that the Earth zooms out too fast but that's literally the point, we're a tiny little dot in a galaxy that doesn't know about us. so we have to make the best of what we do for ourselves.
"You picked a time that really matters" I don't know why this lyric is so heavy to me. I guess because being alive in the modern age feels like such a huge responsibility.
Going through a real hell of a night. Had the courage to tell family i ain't the most comfortable with existing and got real nasty thoughts about ending things on my own terms, and they took it as poorly as I guessed it would. Hearing this song, and all the beautiful little words of encouragement in it ("we are worth saving" made me full on cry) is helping me a lot. I think I needed to listen to this tonight
I know I'm responding to this a year later but I hope everything is okay and you're alive and well and taking care of yourself. The world, life, everything is such a tricky and confusing thing but we are all here for a reason and you will be greatly missed by the people who love you and the world wouldn't be same without your presence. We all need to take care of ourselves and each other. Take care and stay strong for all of us and yourself 🙏🏻
@Sebastian Champignon damn I'm really sorry to hear about that. I hope you're doing okay, I understand how it feels to have a falling out with friends and it's not fun. But you won't be alone forever, no one really is. Whether it's online like right here or in person through a job or school or somewhere else there will always be someone out there to show that we are never truly alone
i'm responding like 2 years later but hope you're doing okay, trust me when i say life can and will get better. when you hit the rock bottom there's only up to go, i'm still climbing up myself and if i see you along the way i'll give you a thumbs up too.
@@TehVulpez ISS will definitely not, but there might be a new space station. Although, considering that ISS costs about 150 billion USD, and per day running cost is 7.5 million, they will probably try to reuse ISS as much as possible.
not to be that guy but doesn't everybody say things like that? I don't really think this world is going to change all that much. I'm not saying we aren't worth saving i'm just commenting on the posts above.
@@Yuseigo That's the problem. The collective will of the human race is capable of achieving anything; in the course of a mere 2 million years we have gone from discovering fire to housing men on literal orbital homes, we've gone from knapping rocks into flint to splitting atoms into pure energy. The only thing keeping us back are those who choose to winge on twitter or watch videos all day rather than contribute to our collective will. Nihilism is a disease which cannot be tolerated.
@@soundwave631 I'm pretty sure the thing keeping us back is that most of the world is owned by about 40 people who are more interested in taking more wealth and power for themselves than improving anything for the human race. Working-class individuals on social media platforms have very little power, and that's by design. Never punch down.
there's something about the two lines "We are worth saving" and "Don't f- it up for you and me" that push the whole idea of this song. It's not about being on the pale blue dot that matters, it's what we do on it.
"You are the moonlight on the mountain. You are a wave upon the sea. You picked a time that really matters. Don't fuck it up for you and me." That hit me so hard I nearly cried. Holy shit.
I’m visiting my grampa currently and he wants to get to know me better, so I played this for him. He said it was beautiful. We sat together in the car, hand in hand, eyes closed, enjoying the song. Some of the lyrics really resonated with him, and towards the end he was humming along. Thank you for helping us have such a heavenly moment of connection.
Must have felt really surreal to have played The Outer Wilds on stream right before releasing this song. Thematically it feels pretty similar, and the ambient synths feel close to the soundtrack as well. I hope it all felt extra personal and special for vin.
This song really made me think about my own existence. As Carl Sagan said, most of us have a delusion of self-importance. We have to matter to the entire universe in order for us to feel important. When it’s revealed that we are on a rock that seems so small and insignificant to the black void of the cosmos, some people think themselves small and insignificant, like the planet itself. I then realized that we matter, maybe not to the universe, but to each other. Our actions affect the people around us and vice versa, and that matters. What DOESNT matter is being small. Why should we care? Why should anyone think nothing matters because we’re small when that couldn’t be further from the truth? We may not matter to the cosmos, but we are important to people, and despite all of humanity’s faults, we are worth saving. Even if it’s from ourselves.
It's a year on, but reading this. I had to share: This is why I'm a believer in spread a smile, even if all you do is give a polite thank you for holding a door, or a smile in passing. You're on this Earth by powers beyond us, be that god, be that the universe; the least you can do as a small dot is make sure those other small dots on this tiny little rock hurtling through space feel important, special, and loved. Share a smile, laugh at a joke, be respectfully quiet if they ask, just be the best person you can be...and don't feel bad if you fail, the road is always there for you to take, when you feel it.
my life has been just pure shit for so long and sometimes i think that this, among few other things, is the reason why i'm still holding up. "you picked a time that really matters, don't fuck it up for you and me." thank you Vin, really. thank you Red Vox. i shall try not to.
Watching this while looking at Jupiter and Venus next to each other in the sky. Red Vox is truly a talented band and very underrated. All their new music and old music are absolutely immaculate
I’ve listened to this song on repeat so many times. The first time I listened to it I cried. It just feels like being held by someone you really love while you cry it out and they tell you everything’s ok. This is why I love Red Vox and their music, the feeling their music elicits.
This song truly means the world to me. Every time I get overwhelmed and anxious, I play it and just the first notes soothe me. Thank you for this song. It is truly my lifeline. Edit: It's been a few months. I'm having a meltdown and this song is my only comfort. Thank you, all of you.
Hey, I'm not sure if anyone will read this, but I just want to say this song helped me when I had a panic attack earlier today, and for that, thank you to Red Vox for making this anxiety-relieving song, God bless, and hope you're having a good day
Riff: f f e c g g# c e g# a c e a bb d f Verse: C C/G# Am Bb Chorus: Ab C Ab C Ab C Ab/Eb Bb/D C Ending Chord: C add11 Far from the earth, far from the sky, we are no other Out in the dark, a lone speck of light, all our creation If we're the only thing that matters, then all we'll leave behind This little dot you'd barely find We barely crawl, we try to fly, we're all still children No two the same, yet all alike, we are worth saving We are the only thing that matters, inside our little minds We are the ones we leave behind You are the moonlight on a mountain A grain of sand upon the beach You are the dream that lasts forever Are you the best that you can be? Are we furthest from the mind, of a creator If all the world's not by design, this is our future We need a reason we should matter, and if we use our heads We'll leave the lights on after bed You are the moonlight on a mountain You are a wave upon the sea You picked a time that really matters Don't fuck it up for you and me
Last night I listened to this song on my own again after the stream, and it legit brought tears to my eyes.. I'm not sure how to describe it but it's wonderful. This song gives off a serene vibe to me. It makes me think about how small and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of the universe, but that we still matter and should care for each other. I love it.
I love how the last song on the album contrasts with the other songs by making Vinny's voice intentionally a lot more clear and unfiltered. The whole album is such a great whole :D
This song makes look at how much was accomplished on a spec of the universe and makes me want to save it it too just so that more can be accomplished in the short amount of time we have left on our own little spec of the universe.
Lyrics (copy-pasted from Bandcamp) Far from the earth, far from the sky, we are no other Out in the dark, a lone speck of light, all our creation If we're the only thing that matters, then all we'll leave behind This little dot you'd barely find We barely crawl, we try to fly, we're all still children No two the same, yet all alike, we are worth saving We are the only thing that matters, inside our little minds We are the ones we leave behind You are the moonlight on a mountain A grain of sand upon the beach You are the dream that lasts forever Are you the best that you can be? Are we furthest from the mind, of a creator If all the world's not by design, this is our future We need a reason we should matter, and if we use our heads We'll leave the lights on after bed You are the moonlight on a mountain You are a wave upon the sea You picked a time that really matters Don't fuck it up for you and me
Not gonna lie, Binyot is actually a good singer. He's more than just funny voice man from John Fullsauce. Edit: God it kills me that this isn't more popular. I mean I can see myself just hearing this on the radio or during some deep moment in a TV Show/Movie.
Maybe it's the soft melody, but this really did make me tear up. There's not really a complex meaning behind this song. We're all on this orb together. We've all grown up on it. Together, we're grains of sand on the same beach. And yet It's all so fragile. Each of us are so unique in our own ways, we leave our own impacts. Each of our actions, ideas, thoughts, affect this spec. A spec so damn important. Let's look out for our spec.
Garfield Solutions I love all of Vinny’s, Red Vox albums it’s crazy such a depressed, memer, that also corrupts games, can make such amazing music, and Joel, as well even though Joel, is more into making meme, or shit post death metal.
There is one lyric I would like to draw extra attention to. “We are the ones we leave behind.” Of course, I’m not the writers, so this is merely speculation, but here’s my interpretation of that line: It is our responsibility to raise the next generation, as they will become the last remnants of our existence. When our body’s decay, nothing of us will be left but the ideas we left to our children. Thus, it is our duty to leave the right message. Please, I love this world, so don’t fuck it up for you and me.
This might honestly be my favorite red vox song. The sound, the instruments, vins voice, the message, it's just beautiful and leaves me in a state of deep thinking
73 bpm, C major, try variations on C, F on the last part of each line, chorus is G# and C, ends with G# to G to C. I'm not the best that I can be, but goddamn me Vinny if I won't try.
It's weird for me because like, when I first heard this song, it's late July 2020, I'm not sure where the world was going, I was out walking cause my dad who no longer lives with me was forcing me to go out and walk 6 miles every day. It didn't do much for me to lose weight but this song, amongst the rest of Realign really kept me going on those mean and nice summer nights. When I first heard it, it's honestly the same feeling I got when I heard Creep by Radiohead for the first time. Thanks vin, mike, joe, and bill. You guys and your magic has helped me through my darkest hours when nothing else could and have made me a better person because of it. Thank you.
This is the best Red Vox song, that isn’t a Slight or insult to the other tunes, I love Ghost Page still but, WOWWEE this song is gorgeous, it’s like a David Bowie, Radiohead or Tally Hall song, Vinny you and the band really did an amazing job on this
The first 3 seconds returned me to my childhood, I was expecting an eerie intro like some of the Metroid music, but oh man, was it a totally interesting subversion hearing something so soothing and calm right after it
Man I love this song. I feel like the message of it all is just that we all don't really matter in the long run but dispite that we need to find our own meaning in the world and hopefully we can all at the end of the day leave the world a better place.
favorite song on the album. you guys are actually really talented, and even though the band is only a few years old it quickly become one of my favorites- from lyrics and instrumentals. keep going!
My really long interpretation of the lyrics. The song is definitely about Earth and it's future, which lay in our hands. "Far from the earth, far from the sky, we are no other" No matter where we are we a unique. Earth is unique. "Out in the dark, a lone speck of light, all our creation" Our whole history as the human race on this planet is a small speck in the large dark place that is the universe. "If we're the only thing that matters, then all we’ll leave behind" Humans think they're the only ones that matter, and they'll only leave their history on the Earth. For others to possibly find after we're gone. "This little dot you'd barely find" We are very small in the universe the Pale Blue Dot picture shows that. You'd barely notice us despite how different we are in our solar system compared to the other planets. "We barely crawl, we try to fly, we're all still children" Our race is still developing, but we are growing fast. Maybe too fast? We're still in the beginning of our existence and there's a lot more for us in the future. We need to take our time. "No two the same, yet all alike, we are worth saving" We are all different. No two people are exactly the same. Yet many of us are alike, in many ways. We are unique and it's worth saving and preserving this for the future. "We are the only thing that matters inside our little minds" To many people, humans are the only thing that matters. Those people have a small closed minds, they don't think of other living things as important. "We are the ones we leave behind" In the end, we will only leave our own history behind. Our own mark. Nothing or nobody else's. "You are the moonlight on a mountain" -Unsure of what this means, I struggled with the chorus. "A grain of sand upon the beach" You're a small part of a big world. "You are the dream that lasts forever" Your mark will last forever if you make one. "Are you the best that you can be?" You're not the best you can be. You can always be better, just try. "Are we furthest from the mind of a creator?" This is hard to understand but I think it means we as people are far from what the mind of an all powerful creator would have wanted from us or made us to do. "If all the world’s not by design, this is our future" The world is not run by a god or creator. The future isn't planned or designed. Our future relies on us. "We need a reason we should matter, and if we use our heads" People need to give themselves and others a reason to matter, a reason to continue and make history. If we use our minds together... "We'll leave the lights on after bed" We'll leave a history and mark for the future and forever, long after we as a race die. "You are the moonlight on a mountain" -Unsure of what this means again. "You are a wave upon the sea" You are one of the many moving forward to make a good future. "You picked a time that really matters" We must pick a good time, to start making a better future. A time when it matters. "Don't fuck it up for you and me" Very simply, don't fuck up our few chances to make the world better for everyone.
This is a song every single human can relate to. Absolutely beautiful. Put tears in my eyes every time I've heard it to far. Thank you to Vinny and all the other people who made this album possible. :)
"You picked a time that really matters. Don't fuck it up for you and me." During and after quarantine this hits harder than it would have hit otherwise. We still got a chance. We are still worth saving.
And yet! It's our everything. Even if all disappears, it will stay as our home and as the home of everything we touched and held dear, of this strange thing you call 'myself' and this even stranger agglomerate of things we call 'Red Vox' , that of which made we all, present sometime and somewhere, find each other under the right code of O's and Ones we call the Internet. This is a good song.
This is definitely the stand out track from this album imo. Very well done. Great lyrics, great melody, great instrumentation. I’ll remember this one for years to come.
This is the one song that I thought was a bit not to my taste at first on the album, but I knew it would be one that gets better every time I listen. Second time hearing it and I already love it more. Great music ♡
Nice, new video! I remember Vinny did say at one point he used Space Engine for a music video. This song is probably my favorite off the album so far too, especially after those Outer Wilds streams lol.
This song coming out and playing the Outer Wilds have given me a very humbling experience this year, though I've felt this way for before. One day, I will die. This pale blue dot will become inhospitable as the sun grows older and hotter. And then one day, our sun will give one final burst of energy, and eventually over time it's light will fade. The universe will share this fate too. But that's... you know, that's okay! We won't get to see any of this, but in the end, it really doesn't matter. Nothing does. Life is absurd. But who cares? For whatever reason, we're here. And for a moment, we matter; not to the cosmos, but to us. Because this is all we have. This life and this spec of dust we live on. We need to get our act together and treat each other and our home world kindly, because we only have one shot at this. There will never be another Earth. And we still have no idea what's out there. Maybe it seems pointless as one day we and the Earth will fade away anyway. But that doesn't matter. What matters is what we do in that small window we have, to ensure we all can enjoy the time we have left; we, and those who will come after us. So thank you Red Vox. "Astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. To me, it underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot." - Carl Sagan
I've been listening to this album since release and it's probably my most favorite album they've done with this being my most favorite song on it. Good job, guys.
the pale blue dot is one of the most precious pictures ever and one of my most beloved, i want it as a print for every room. you just stare at this tiny blue pixel and can't comprehend. how can we do so many good and so many bad things at the same time, how can there be so much cruelty on this tiny pale blue dot - it doesn't fit. we are all in and on this together.
Someone on stream said it’s as if Bowie’s ghost passed through Vin in this song and I have never heard something more true
Eorther He also sounds kinda like Thom Yorke, though this sounds like a song Bowie, would have wrote.
What stream did he play this song on?
@@64fanatic on the red vox twitch, he played the album when it first came out. it should be somewhere on youtube
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
- Carl Sagan
Nice.
Fantastic book if anyone wants to read it. Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan.
"You are the moonlight on the mountain, a grain of sand upon the beach, you are the dream that lasts forever, are the best that you can be" makes me feel every emotion AND THEN it gets followed up by that riff.... fucking incredible
Ash Vinny, will go down in history with Radiohead i swear it, and i know he would love that, but he’s honestly gotten me though tough times though his streams, so for me he has also gone down in history someone that brings joy to people though his streams, and often hilarious corruptions.
This is the some of the best anti-nihilist campaigning I’ve ever heard
coming back to this, i always complained that the Earth zooms out too fast
but that's literally the point, we're a tiny little dot in a galaxy that doesn't know about us. so we have to make the best of what we do for ourselves.
"You picked a time that really matters"
I don't know why this lyric is so heavy to me. I guess because being alive in the modern age feels like such a huge responsibility.
Going through a real hell of a night. Had the courage to tell family i ain't the most comfortable with existing and got real nasty thoughts about ending things on my own terms, and they took it as poorly as I guessed it would. Hearing this song, and all the beautiful little words of encouragement in it ("we are worth saving" made me full on cry) is helping me a lot. I think I needed to listen to this tonight
I know I'm responding to this a year later but I hope everything is okay and you're alive and well and taking care of yourself. The world, life, everything is such a tricky and confusing thing but we are all here for a reason and you will be greatly missed by the people who love you and the world wouldn't be same without your presence. We all need to take care of ourselves and each other. Take care and stay strong for all of us and yourself 🙏🏻
@Sebastian Champignon damn I'm really sorry to hear about that. I hope you're doing okay, I understand how it feels to have a falling out with friends and it's not fun. But you won't be alone forever, no one really is. Whether it's online like right here or in person through a job or school or somewhere else there will always be someone out there to show that we are never truly alone
You still having thoughts like this.
If you're ever having self harming thoughts, call a suicide prevention number they'll help you more than anyone else will.
i'm responding like 2 years later but hope you're doing okay, trust me when i say life can and will get better. when you hit the rock bottom there's only up to go, i'm still climbing up myself and if i see you along the way i'll give you a thumbs up too.
Can't wait until an astronaut performs this song on the ISS 40 or 50 years from now
I don't think the space station is going to last that long, sadly
@@TehVulpez Alright, maybe on the moon
@@veepizzapie or on a mission to Mars or something
@@TehVulpez ISS will definitely not, but there might be a new space station. Although, considering that ISS costs about 150 billion USD, and per day running cost is 7.5 million, they will probably try to reuse ISS as much as possible.
They'll play sound of contact's song by accident lol
I think this is the song that best showcases how far Vinny's vocals have come. Really excellent work by all involved on this record
What could go wrong had his voice be so grungy and stiff, he's come so far.
i dont wanna be that person but he really sounds younger on this one
@@Solanuma well thats fine, higher notes and stuff.
Great profile pic
his vocal range is so amazing, i love it
this feels like something you'd hear in a movie with a bittersweet ending
This song would have been perfect for A Ghost Story
"We are worth saving."
Down with nihilism!
it's 2020, we're ditching nihilism and work towards a tomorrow for everyone baby woo
not to be that guy but doesn't everybody say things like that? I don't really think this world is going to change all that much.
I'm not saying we aren't worth saving i'm just commenting on the posts above.
@@Yuseigo That's the problem. The collective will of the human race is capable of achieving anything; in the course of a mere 2 million years we have gone from discovering fire to housing men on literal orbital homes, we've gone from knapping rocks into flint to splitting atoms into pure energy.
The only thing keeping us back are those who choose to winge on twitter or watch videos all day rather than contribute to our collective will. Nihilism is a disease which cannot be tolerated.
@@soundwave631 I'm pretty sure the thing keeping us back is that most of the world is owned by about 40 people who are more interested in taking more wealth and power for themselves than improving anything for the human race. Working-class individuals on social media platforms have very little power, and that's by design. Never punch down.
there's something about the two lines "We are worth saving" and "Don't f- it up for you and me" that push the whole idea of this song. It's not about being on the pale blue dot that matters, it's what we do on it.
"You are the moonlight on the mountain. You are a wave upon the sea. You picked a time that really matters. Don't fuck it up for you and me."
That hit me so hard I nearly cried. Holy shit.
I’m visiting my grampa currently and he wants to get to know me better, so I played this for him. He said it was beautiful. We sat together in the car, hand in hand, eyes closed, enjoying the song. Some of the lyrics really resonated with him, and towards the end he was humming along. Thank you for helping us have such a heavenly moment of connection.
Must have felt really surreal to have played The Outer Wilds on stream right before releasing this song. Thematically it feels pretty similar, and the ambient synths feel close to the soundtrack as well. I hope it all felt extra personal and special for vin.
I was just about to say the same. Definitely has the same vibe and atmosphere.
i had that experience with What Could Go Wrong and his active worlds stream
This song really made me think about my own existence. As Carl Sagan said, most of us have a delusion of self-importance. We have to matter to the entire universe in order for us to feel important. When it’s revealed that we are on a rock that seems so small and insignificant to the black void of the cosmos, some people think themselves small and insignificant, like the planet itself. I then realized that we matter, maybe not to the universe, but to each other. Our actions affect the people around us and vice versa, and that matters. What DOESNT matter is being small. Why should we care? Why should anyone think nothing matters because we’re small when that couldn’t be further from the truth? We may not matter to the cosmos, but we are important to people, and despite all of humanity’s faults, we are worth saving. Even if it’s from ourselves.
It's a year on, but reading this. I had to share: This is why I'm a believer in spread a smile, even if all you do is give a polite thank you for holding a door, or a smile in passing. You're on this Earth by powers beyond us, be that god, be that the universe; the least you can do as a small dot is make sure those other small dots on this tiny little rock hurtling through space feel important, special, and loved. Share a smile, laugh at a joke, be respectfully quiet if they ask, just be the best person you can be...and don't feel bad if you fail, the road is always there for you to take, when you feel it.
my life has been just pure shit for so long and sometimes i think that this, among few other things, is the reason why i'm still holding up. "you picked a time that really matters, don't fuck it up for you and me." thank you Vin, really. thank you Red Vox. i shall try not to.
hey, to whoever liked this, in case you could relate: you got this. we both shall try not to. 🐢
@@brokenocarina4997 im a few months late but i hope your in a better spot
Watching this while looking at Jupiter and Venus next to each other in the sky. Red Vox is truly a talented band and very underrated. All their new music and old music are absolutely immaculate
You know when you see or hear something that makes you feel an emotion that doesn't exist?
That's probably dread you're feeling
its called hope
@@carcinogenecist2054 the duality of man
@El Canal del Peps trantiveness
Ah yes, my favourite genre of music, existential dread.
I’ve listened to this song on repeat so many times. The first time I listened to it I cried. It just feels like being held by someone you really love while you cry it out and they tell you everything’s ok. This is why I love Red Vox and their music, the feeling their music elicits.
♫ You picked a time that really matters, don't fuck it up for you and me ♫
yeah
I found this band from a meme text post on Tumblr. Now I come here to relax and calm down. To cry and smoke.
This song truly means the world to me. Every time I get overwhelmed and anxious, I play it and just the first notes soothe me. Thank you for this song. It is truly my lifeline.
Edit: It's been a few months. I'm having a meltdown and this song is my only comfort. Thank you, all of you.
Hey, I'm not sure if anyone will read this, but I just want to say this song helped me when I had a panic attack earlier today, and for that, thank you to Red Vox for making this anxiety-relieving song, God bless, and hope you're having a good day
I've picked up the guitar the second this stopped playing on realign. The new depression killer, like Hazy.
Do you have tabs
MemeMachine2.0 I just put some up at pastebin.com/VkstLkht
major tom in his tin can approves
I’ll never forget the chat all crying from hearing this song live, all encouraging each other to keep pushing forward…
Riff: f f e c g g# c e g# a c e a bb d f
Verse: C C/G# Am Bb
Chorus: Ab C Ab C Ab C Ab/Eb Bb/D C
Ending Chord: C add11
Far from the earth, far from the sky, we are no other
Out in the dark, a lone speck of light, all our creation
If we're the only thing that matters, then all we'll leave behind
This little dot you'd barely find
We barely crawl, we try to fly, we're all still children
No two the same, yet all alike, we are worth saving
We are the only thing that matters, inside our little minds
We are the ones we leave behind
You are the moonlight on a mountain
A grain of sand upon the beach
You are the dream that lasts forever
Are you the best that you can be?
Are we furthest from the mind, of a creator
If all the world's not by design, this is our future
We need a reason we should matter, and if we use our heads
We'll leave the lights on after bed
You are the moonlight on a mountain
You are a wave upon the sea
You picked a time that really matters
Don't fuck it up for you and me
Thanks, was wondering when someone would have the lyrics
Thanks dude
Thanks for the chords bro! I wanted to learn this song.
Wow the lyrics are one thing but the chords too! Really went above and beyond on this one, and I super appreciate that! Cheers
Last night I listened to this song on my own again after the stream, and it legit brought tears to my eyes.. I'm not sure how to describe it but it's wonderful. This song gives off a serene vibe to me. It makes me think about how small and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of the universe, but that we still matter and should care for each other. I love it.
It is a beautiful track indeed.
which stream did he show this track off on? Wanna see chat's reaction.
64 fanatic In this video: th-cam.com/video/9mOQokBCyhQ/w-d-xo.html
I love how the last song on the album contrasts with the other songs by making Vinny's voice intentionally a lot more clear and unfiltered. The whole album is such a great whole :D
There's maybe four songs total that have ever made me cry.
This is one of them.
This is the song that really got me into Red Vox, and it's still my favorite. Infinitely replayable.
this looks like it was made in space engine, which honestly sounds like a great way to make a music video
didn't he play Space Engine at some point? It's quite likely tbh 👀
He confirmed on stream that ye he used Space Engine for this. Really neat use for it
declaring this the sequel to space oddity
This is still my favorite Red Vox song
This song makes look at how much was accomplished on a spec of the universe and makes me want to save it it too just so that more can be accomplished in the short amount of time we have left on our own little spec of the universe.
Lyrics (copy-pasted from Bandcamp)
Far from the earth, far from the sky, we are no other
Out in the dark, a lone speck of light, all our creation
If we're the only thing that matters, then all we'll leave behind
This little dot you'd barely find
We barely crawl, we try to fly, we're all still children
No two the same, yet all alike, we are worth saving
We are the only thing that matters, inside our little minds
We are the ones we leave behind
You are the moonlight on a mountain
A grain of sand upon the beach
You are the dream that lasts forever
Are you the best that you can be?
Are we furthest from the mind, of a creator
If all the world's not by design, this is our future
We need a reason we should matter, and if we use our heads
We'll leave the lights on after bed
You are the moonlight on a mountain
You are a wave upon the sea
You picked a time that really matters
Don't fuck it up for you and me
You are a god among men for posting the lyrics.
Not gonna lie, Binyot is actually a good singer.
He's more than just funny voice man from John Fullsauce.
Edit: God it kills me that this isn't more popular. I mean I can see myself just hearing this on the radio or during some deep moment in a TV Show/Movie.
BIGTOAST75 It’s honestly beautiful how different he is when he does music, and isn’t playing, or corrupting games on stream.
Well yes, he's human like us.
Reducing Vinny to a funny man caricature is insulting
Moonbase:Alpha credits theme (I wish)
I remember someone in the comments saying it's like david bowie passed right throw vinny's soul in this song and I've never agreed more
At PAX 2019 Vinny said his favorite Red Vox song was on his next album. I think this is the one.
this song made me cry during the album premiere until someone said that it's star trek enterprise theme song vibes (love it guys)
Good mix of Lennon and Bowie inspiration for sure. This song makes me feel emotions. Probably my favorite on the album, great work Vin & the guys.
Every now and then I find a song that I just listen to on loop for hours while doing nothing, this is one of those songs.
For a solid second I thought this was another new song then I realized it’s literally on realign
Did not understand why everyone was crying to this song and yet here I am crying my eyes out.
You can’t do this to me
This is neat. Steady rocking Red Vox in my shithole 95 dodge via bluetooth fm transmitter, homie.
This song has been stuck in my head since the album came out. It hits me deep.
Maybe it's the soft melody, but this really did make me tear up. There's not really a complex meaning behind this song.
We're all on this orb together. We've all grown up on it. Together, we're grains of sand on the same beach. And yet
It's all so fragile. Each of us are so unique in our own ways, we leave our own impacts. Each of our actions, ideas, thoughts, affect this spec.
A spec so damn important.
Let's look out for our spec.
Probably my favorite off of Realign, there’s not a single song I don’t like though
saaaame although i think reeling from the rafters is my #1 favorite from this album
@@Yuseigo Same
Garfield Solutions I love all of Vinny’s, Red Vox albums it’s crazy such a depressed, memer, that also corrupts games, can make such amazing music, and Joel, as well even though Joel, is more into making meme, or shit post death metal.
@@joshshrum2764 Joel doesn't just make shitpost metal, have you not heard of Scythelord? They absolutely slap
Google User Well he does a lot of shitposts, but they fucking kick ass, but yes i have heard Scythelord.
There is one lyric I would like to draw extra attention to.
“We are the ones we leave behind.”
Of course, I’m not the writers, so this is merely speculation, but here’s my interpretation of that line:
It is our responsibility to raise the next generation, as they will become the last remnants of our existence. When our body’s decay, nothing of us will be left but the ideas we left to our children. Thus, it is our duty to leave the right message. Please, I love this world, so don’t fuck it up for you and me.
Better on the Outside, Closer Now, and then finishing up with Pale Blue Dot. Hits me hard with the emotions. Thanks Red Vox.
This might honestly be my favorite red vox song. The sound, the instruments, vins voice, the message, it's just beautiful and leaves me in a state of deep thinking
I wish that Carl Sagan could've heard this, it's that good
73 bpm, C major, try variations on C, F on the last part of each line, chorus is G# and C, ends with G# to G to C. I'm not the best that I can be, but goddamn me Vinny if I won't try.
It's weird for me because like, when I first heard this song, it's late July 2020, I'm not sure where the world was going, I was out walking cause my dad who no longer lives with me was forcing me to go out and walk 6 miles every day. It didn't do much for me to lose weight but this song, amongst the rest of Realign really kept me going on those mean and nice summer nights. When I first heard it, it's honestly the same feeling I got when I heard Creep by Radiohead for the first time. Thanks vin, mike, joe, and bill. You guys and your magic has helped me through my darkest hours when nothing else could and have made me a better person because of it. Thank you.
one of my favourites on the album. It’s funny but the name just felt like a red vox song
This is the best Red Vox song, that isn’t a Slight or insult to the other tunes, I love Ghost Page still but, WOWWEE this song is gorgeous, it’s like a David Bowie, Radiohead or Tally Hall song, Vinny you and the band really did an amazing job on this
This song floored me so hard I dropped everything I was doing when I first heard it and almost cried. 100/10 thank u funny stream man
while i, like, can relate and deeply agree with your words actually, i just have the urge to say this
hi karkat
@@brokenocarina4997 hi
@@carcinogenecist2054 hell yeah karkat blast from the not so distant past :)
Every time, without fail, this song makes me cry.
man,, this hits me so hard in the heart. i appreciate the vibes. thank you
every red vox song gives me goose bumps, including vomit in the ball pit
reminds me of david bowie. a great ending for the album
vinny i am so stoned and crying
After watching Vinny's Outer Wilds stream. This song feels more special. Great job guys
The first 3 seconds returned me to my childhood, I was expecting an eerie intro like some of the Metroid music, but oh man, was it a totally interesting subversion hearing something so soothing and calm right after it
Man I love this song. I feel like the message of it all is just that we all don't really matter in the long run but dispite that we need to find our own meaning in the world and hopefully we can all at the end of the day leave the world a better place.
favorite song on the album. you guys are actually really talented, and even though the band is only a few years old it quickly become one of my favorites- from lyrics and instrumentals. keep going!
My really long interpretation of the lyrics.
The song is definitely about Earth and it's future, which lay in our hands.
"Far from the earth, far from the sky, we are no other"
No matter where we are we a unique. Earth is unique.
"Out in the dark, a lone speck of light, all our creation"
Our whole history as the human race on this planet
is a small speck in the large dark place that is the universe.
"If we're the only thing that matters, then all we’ll leave behind"
Humans think they're the only ones that matter,
and they'll only leave their history on the Earth.
For others to possibly find after we're gone.
"This little dot you'd barely find"
We are very small in the universe the Pale Blue Dot picture shows that.
You'd barely notice us despite how different we are in our solar
system compared to the other planets.
"We barely crawl, we try to fly, we're all still children"
Our race is still developing, but we are growing fast. Maybe too fast?
We're still in the beginning of our existence and
there's a lot more for us in the future. We need to take our time.
"No two the same, yet all alike, we are worth saving"
We are all different. No two people are exactly the same.
Yet many of us are alike, in many ways.
We are unique and it's worth saving and preserving this for the future.
"We are the only thing that matters inside our little minds"
To many people, humans are the only thing that matters.
Those people have a small closed minds, they don't think of other
living things as important.
"We are the ones we leave behind"
In the end, we will only leave our own history behind. Our own mark.
Nothing or nobody else's.
"You are the moonlight on a mountain"
-Unsure of what this means, I struggled with the chorus.
"A grain of sand upon the beach"
You're a small part of a big world.
"You are the dream that lasts forever"
Your mark will last forever if you make one.
"Are you the best that you can be?"
You're not the best you can be. You can always be better, just try.
"Are we furthest from the mind of a creator?"
This is hard to understand but I think it means we as people are far from what the
mind of an all powerful creator would have wanted from us or made us to do.
"If all the world’s not by design, this is our future"
The world is not run by a god or creator. The future isn't planned or designed.
Our future relies on us.
"We need a reason we should matter, and if we use our heads"
People need to give themselves and others a reason to matter, a reason to
continue and make history. If we use our minds together...
"We'll leave the lights on after bed"
We'll leave a history and mark for the future and forever, long after we
as a race die.
"You are the moonlight on a mountain"
-Unsure of what this means again.
"You are a wave upon the sea"
You are one of the many moving forward to make a good future.
"You picked a time that really matters"
We must pick a good time, to start making a better future.
A time when it matters.
"Don't fuck it up for you and me"
Very simply, don't fuck up our few chances to make the world better for everyone.
This makes me heart feel strong yet filled with a specific emotion that I cant describe
Amazing song Honestly one of my favorites in a while
This is a song every single human can relate to. Absolutely beautiful. Put tears in my eyes every time I've heard it to far. Thank you to Vinny and all the other people who made this album possible. :)
Anyone else get a nostalgic feel from this song?
kinda gives me 2010 vibes and idk why
"You picked a time that really matters. Don't fuck it up for you and me."
During and after quarantine this hits harder than it would have hit otherwise.
We still got a chance. We are still worth saving.
Outer Wilds vibes all over the place, loving it.
Been crying to this song everytime it came up while listening to this album.
When Carl Sagan and Bowie come to the same dream at the same time.
This reminds me of one of my favorite songs in the universe
The chorus sounds like Bowie with the Ab at the start of every line, and then the almost Hylics-like riff just makes it perfect.
And yet! It's our everything. Even if all disappears, it will stay as our home and as the home of everything we touched and held dear, of this strange thing you call 'myself' and this even stranger agglomerate of things we call 'Red Vox' , that of which made we all, present sometime and somewhere, find each other under the right code of O's and Ones we call the Internet. This is a good song.
This is definitely the stand out track from this album imo. Very well done. Great lyrics, great melody, great instrumentation. I’ll remember this one for years to come.
This is, for me, what made this album the best red vox album
The message of this song is so moving, so important. Thank you Red Vox. You're an inspiration.
EDIT: and yea i may have shed a tear... or a couple..
This song is incredible. One of the best from you guys.
man, this song still brings tears to my eyes and i'm sure it always will.
This is the one song that I thought was a bit not to my taste at first on the album, but I knew it would be one that gets better every time I listen. Second time hearing it and I already love it more. Great music ♡
Months of thinking well spent
I just commented on the album about how much I love this song. Definitely one of my favorites for the album! In memory of the Voyager. o7
Okay, yeah
This is now my favorite song of all time
The bit that starts around 2 minutes in is just sooo goooooooooooooooooooood. Reminds me of Pink Floyd somehow.
Nice, new video! I remember Vinny did say at one point he used Space Engine for a music video. This song is probably my favorite off the album so far too, especially after those Outer Wilds streams lol.
This song coming out and playing the Outer Wilds have given me a very humbling experience this year, though I've felt this way for before. One day, I will die. This pale blue dot will become inhospitable as the sun grows older and hotter. And then one day, our sun will give one final burst of energy, and eventually over time it's light will fade. The universe will share this fate too. But that's... you know, that's okay! We won't get to see any of this, but in the end, it really doesn't matter. Nothing does. Life is absurd. But who cares? For whatever reason, we're here. And for a moment, we matter; not to the cosmos, but to us. Because this is all we have. This life and this spec of dust we live on. We need to get our act together and treat each other and our home world kindly, because we only have one shot at this. There will never be another Earth. And we still have no idea what's out there. Maybe it seems pointless as one day we and the Earth will fade away anyway. But that doesn't matter. What matters is what we do in that small window we have, to ensure we all can enjoy the time we have left; we, and those who will come after us. So thank you Red Vox.
"Astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. To me, it underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot." - Carl Sagan
I've been listening to this album since release and it's probably my most favorite album they've done with this being my most favorite song on it. Good job, guys.
Vin’s vocals are so good! Love this song
Yep, this one's going in my favorite Red Vox songs playlist IMMEDIATELY
If anyone for some reason still needs an example of just how special a person Vinny really is...Let this be that example.
My absolute favorite song from Realign, and even this band. It's just so well done.
This and Be Someone Forever are my two favorite songs on Realign. This album is amazing, great work guys
Totally agree on favorites.
the pale blue dot is one of the most precious pictures ever and one of my most beloved, i want it as a print for every room. you just stare at this tiny blue pixel and can't comprehend. how can we do so many good and so many bad things at the same time, how can there be so much cruelty on this tiny pale blue dot - it doesn't fit. we are all in and on this together.
This one makes me feel so many emotions. Thanks for that.
There is so much love in this song.